ABOUT JODIE PRYMKE CGF
Qualifications
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Certified Guild Framer - Picture Framers Guild of Victoria - 2001
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Certificate of Frame Restoration and Gilding, Laboratorio Scuola Oro e Colore, Florence, Italy 2007 - 2008
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Diploma of Design (Fashion), Marleston TAFE SA 1984 -1985
Professional Associations
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Government House, Adelaide - Framing the King and Queen of England
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Art Gallery of South Australia
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State Library of South Australia
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Town of Gawler
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Flinders University Museum of Art
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West Wimmera Shire Council
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Charles Sturt Museum, Grange
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Artlab Australia
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Steamatic Australia - Approved Contractor
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Fireworks Restoration Services - Approved Contractor
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Crown Relocations (International) - Approved Contractor
Other Achievements
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Authored trade article "Timber Mats" - US Publication - Picture Framing Magazine, October 2020
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International Judge - 2020 Gunnar UK Creative Mount Design Challenge
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International Judge - 2019 Gunnar UK Creative Mount Design Challenge
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Authored trade article "The Power of Detail" - US Publication - Picture Framing Magazine, March 2018
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International Judge - 2018 Gunnar UK Creative Mount Design Challenge
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Authored trade article "Memories of Nature" - US Publication - Picture Framing Magazine, July 2017
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Q & A with Helen McKenzie "In the Frame", Art Edit Magazine, Autumn 2016
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International Judge - 2016 Gunnar UK Creative Mat Cutting Competition
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Authored trade article "Design of the Month" - US publication - Picture Framing Magazine, June 2015
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Featured in US Publication - Picture Framing Magazine, February 2015
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International Judge - 2015 Gunnar UK Creative Mat Cutting Competition - Spring Fair (Birmingham UK)
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Featured by Lyn Treloar on her Blog "A Big Leap", December 2014
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Featured in US Publication - Picture Framing Magazine, July 2014
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Featured in AU Publication - SA Life Magazine, May 2014
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International Framing Competition - Larson Juhl's "Design Star" 2014 - Second Place Winner - Frame Design for Documents
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International Judge - 2014 Gunnar UK Framing Competition - Spring Fair International (Birmingham)
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Founder - French Matting Community - the worldwide forum for French Matting practitioners - 2013
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1st Place Needlework Frame Design, Royal Adelaide Show 2013
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Featured in US Publication - Picture Framing Magazine, May 2012
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Featured in Australian Art Collector - Invitation Only - Collector's Compendium 2011
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Secretary - Picture Framers Guild of Victoria 2001 - 2003
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Tutor, Picture Framing and Conservation, Council for Adult Education, Melbourne, 2000 - 2003
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Founder, Australian Picture Framers Forum
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South Australian Finalist - Young Designers Award 1985
South Australia's Only Qualified PFGV
"Certified Guild Framer"
International
Award Winning Picture
Frame Designer
Published in
Art Edit Magazine
SA Life Magazine
Picture Framing Magazine
Profile Magazine
About Us
Jodie Prymke CGF is Australia's only "Design Star" international award-winning picture frame designer and South Australia's only PFGV Certified Guild Picture Framer.
With 36 years' experience as a qualified designer, her boutique framing gallery in Adelaide, South Australia, specializes in high-end art preservation and conservation, unique frame designs, French matting and frame restoration. Her clients include private collectors, museums and public institutions.
Jodie began her professional picture framing career in Melbourne in 1996. After 12 years as a fashion designer for Maggie T and the Sportsgirl/Sportscraft Group, she joined the Picture Framers Guild of Victoria in 1998. In 2001, she became a full member of the PFGV, achieving her Certified Guild Framer’s certificate, one of only 19 in Australia, the only one in South Australia.
In 2007 and 2008 Jodie travelled to Bologna and Florence in Italy, where she studied gilding, frame restoration and traditional framing techniques at the artisan studio “Laboratorio Scuola Oro e Colore” owned and run by C & S Martelli, Master Gilders to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
On returning to Australia, “Jodie Prymke Fine Art Framing” was opened in March 2008.
In January 2014, at the PPFA National Conference in Las Vegas USA, Jodie was awarded in the International Larson Juhl “Design Star” Competition. Out of hundreds of entries world-wide, she was the only Australian picture framer to be awarded.
In the six years the competition was running (2013 - 2018), she was the only international competitor outside of the USA to ever receive a "Design Star" award.
In 2015, Jodie was approached by Picture Framing Magazine to become a contributing author. Picture Framing Magazine is the industry's leading magazine, and is published in the USA.